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Message: [QUOTE="CocoHusky, post: 2019930, member: 5823"] At most big large state school the AD rarely actually sees the Women's basketball coach "in game". The Women's basketball team is often relegated to an Associate AD who is lower on the totem pole and is typically responsible for several other non-revenue sports. The AD at these schools usually get involved if there is a major problem and things like contract extensions for WBB coaches are routinely delegated as well. This is both good and bad, if you are a successful coach program builder like Dawn, Geno or Pat (Joe Paterno in another sport) you can really easily acquire more power than the AD and definitely more than associate AD. I'm not saying Holly has acquired that power but TN women's basketball definitely has. A good example of that power is they were successful in keeping the name "Lady Vols"-applies to no other TN women's team. When TN switched from Adidas to Nike a few years ago TN got more out of Nike because of the Lady Vols brand. [/QUOTE]